The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters OF Money and Management
About Various Lines.

About Various Lines.
On October l another fast through train
will be placed on the Alabama Great South
ern.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company had the guage on the st. Marks
branch road changed last Monday to the
standard measure, new crossties put IN and
the roadbed improved generally.
The following statement of railroad earn
ings We're made public Saturday: Louisville
and Nashville-Monthly statement of earn
ings and expenses for July, 1SST-Gross
earnings, 81 ,326, 663;, for 1886, l,2j1, 201 !;
increase, S69, 456. Expenses for 1887, S7s4,-
337; for 1886, S707, OPS; increase, ST,S32.
Net earnings for 1887, $543, sos; for 1886,
$3.50, 1872; decrease, $7,S7G
Rdit0dy Age: 1t now seems probable that
the number of miles of new road construct
ed i'll the United States during 1887 will be
about 1900. This figure is the greatest on
record. 1t has never been approached ex
cept in 1882 when the total was l ,5GS miles.
Track laying for 1887, up to Sept. !, aggre-
gates 9, 462 miles. Kansas still continues far
in the lead over the other States in the work
OF railway construction.
1t is said that the plans have been pre-
pared for the projected passenger depot of
the Queen and Crescent route at Chatta-
nooga, and that they have been forwarded
to London for examination by the English
directors of the Alabama Great Southern
railway. AS soon as they pass upon them
some definite action viii Be taken regard
ing the depot AS now projected, the idea
is to turn the present Alabama Great South
ern freight depot into a passenger station,
and erect freight depot on the present site
of Nixon & Wester's warehouse.
Birmingham Herald: The threatened
strike of the Louisville and Nashville brake
men has been averted. One of the brake
men said that the Louisville and Nashville
paid its men as much as any other railroad
in the United States except the Southern
Pacific, and he saw no sufficient grounds for
a strike The men seem to have become
convinced that their action was premature.
1t is said that the trouble originated with
few malcontents who desired to quit the
service of the company but who were willing
to work few months longer provided they
could get lbs increased pay they asked
At a meeting of the citizens of Hawkins
vile, Ga, held Monday the following reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted
Whereas, There is now pending in the Leg
islature an application for charter for the
Savannah, Macon and Birmingham rail
road, and whereas, said road proposes to
traverse the same section of country now
occupied by the Savannah, Dublin and
Western road, and now already under con-
struction, be it Resolved, That we, the citi-
zens of Hawkinsville and Pulaski county,
feel that the granting of charter to the Sa-
vannah, Macon and Birmingham road
would retard or greatly impede the progress
of the work on the Savannah, Dublin and
Western road, and prove detrimental to the
interests of the people through which the
latter road is being built, we respectfully
petition our honorable Representative in the
Legislature to refuse the charter for the first
named road. That, as the charter for the
Savannah, Macon and Birmingham road
does not provide for line from
Dublin via Cochran and Hawkins
vile to Americas, and believing that the
granting of charter for this road would
destroy this important project, and prove
greatly detrimental to the interests of our
people generally, we respectfully and earn
estly petition our immediate Representa-
tive, Hon Y. H. Morgan, to use all his en-
ergy and influence toward defeating or re-
fusing the charter TO the said Savannah,
Macon and Birmingham railroad"